There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands.
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There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.
We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.
Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.
There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.
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